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How Your Baby Helps During the Birthing Process

How Your Baby Helps During the Birthing Process

Labor & Birth, newborn, Podcast, short episode, TBPodcast

Babies use a set of coordinated movements and specific reflexes that allow them to participate in the birthing process. Adriana Lozada explains how this fascinating process works, and how it helps get them earthside. Powered by RedCircle Listen directly through our...
[Birth Story] How Harnessing Her Birth Hormones Allowed Her to Forgo an Induction

[Birth Story] How Harnessing Her Birth Hormones Allowed Her to Forgo an Induction

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Fertility, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

When Danellia Arechiga became a gestational surrogate, she felt strongly about having an unmedicated birth at a birth center. Even as her labor plan derailed into an induction, she pushed for few interventions and worked with her physiology, ultimately experiencing...
Understanding Acupuncture From a Physiological Lens (and Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Needles!)

Understanding Acupuncture From a Physiological Lens (and Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Needles!)

Fertility, Labor & Birth, Movement and Body Wellness in Pregnancy Series, Podcast, Pregnancy, TBPodcast

Acupuncture can help alleviate nausea, constipation, and back pain. It can encourage breech babies to flip and labor to start. But how does it work, and what does it feel like? Acupuncturist, massage therapist, and birth doula Dr. Patrick Boswell talks with Adriana...
How Prenatal Yoga Can Help Protect Your Energy (And Why This Is Important!)

How Prenatal Yoga Can Help Protect Your Energy (And Why This Is Important!)

Doulas, Movement and Body Wellness in Pregnancy Series, Podcast, Pregnancy, TBPodcast

You’ve probably been told to do prenatal yoga, but is it really for you? Trauma-informed yoga teacher Abigail Lauren Geller says not if it’s another overwhelming thing on your to-do list! But if you are curious about the benefits of prenatal yoga for your body, your...
[Best of Birthful] Why Uncontrollable Shaking Is an Important Part of Birth

[Best of Birthful] Why Uncontrollable Shaking Is an Important Part of Birth

Breastfeeding, golden hour, Podcast, TBPodcast

Welcome to the Best of Birthful. Creator and host Adriana Lozada curated and edited each selection in this playlist of the show’s most popular episodes. It’s a tailored introduction to the expansive catalog she amassed over the first five years of...
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